On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote: > For those who've seen the film already you know the scene I'm about to > describe: S. Flynn finds the back room where K. Flynn had his port of the old > ENCOM mainframe, complete with digitizing laser system. The big computer is > clearly some kind of Intel-based system -- I caught the "i386" on the shell > window. Given the time frame it was set up (late 1980s) that would make it a > genuine 80306. I caught a bit of the vmstat output on the left, enough to > recognize it as vmstat but not enough to identify the flavor. Did any of you > see enough to identify the actual OS? I suspect that it is either Sun i386, > a Sequent Symmetry, or possibly a Unisys of some sort. > > If it's a Linux kernel then I'll just chalk it up to yet another time warp > artifact. :)
A friend said: CZ> Looks like it's running Sunos 4.0.1, Sun4m, I386. That's weird. However >4.0.1 and the 24mb of memory I can see match up with a 386i with three >memory boards. That could work if he had a CG5 framebuffer. > >The Sun4m line though didn't run 4.0.1, I think one needed 4.0.3. And the >size of the boxes reminds me of the size of the Sparcserver 670MP. Which >would be enough to run a fun world. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
